They needed a reason why a little kid would commit murder, someone or something to point the finger at, and I think they were relieved when they hit upon horror movies as the culprit. But there's no reason a child commits murder, just as there's no reason a child gets lost. What would it be - because his parents weren't watching him? That's not a reason, it's just a step in the process.
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Related Theres a reason why theyre not amateurs anymore. ALEX HAMILTON Assuming theres insurance, there would be no reason not to carry on, ... This just pushes us back on... BOB GOODMAN Love is a growing, or full constant light, And his first minute, after noon, is night. JOHN DONNE No particular reason. I think I remember watching when I was a kid and all the players would take it... CHARLES HOWELL Theres a good reason I dont believe in God. No one that almighty, powerful, and rightoues, would eve... NICHOLAS RYAN LAYMON You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries,
I would give no man a reason upon compulsion. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When there's darkness around you, shine your light even brighter. JEANETTE CORON Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE I grew up with my grandparents around. I think that's important for a child. If for no other rea... AL ROKER Have & Have Not SAVAN SOLANKI In this life it is good to have the experience of raising a child from infant stage to adulthood,be ... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Only fools wait, and only tools bait. CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ... DWIGHT W. HAYES Give you a reason on compulsion! If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a MICHAEL H. DANSBURY Life, they urge, would be intolerable if men were to be guided in all they did by reason and reason ... SAMUEL BUTLER Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, havin... EMIL M. CIORAN Be the reason someone smiles today. Or the reason they drown in a book. Whatever works. RONEY NGALA How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS I think love is sort of a con you play on yourself. I think the whole conception of love is somethin... RICHARD HELL We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL With the in-your-face steroid scandals, I've said at some point the MLB brand would be diminished. N... DAVID CARTER There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but ... GEORGE SAVILE Some people are each holding on to a lover of theirs who no longer loves them and/or who they no lon... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Hope makes you stronger, because it brings with it a sense of reason. Not a reason of how or why the... CECELIA AHERN There is no reason why a king should be rich or a rich man should be a king, no reason at all. GERTRUDE STEIN There is a tendency on the left, to think if someone in any way disagrees with the left it must be f... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS There is no reason why it shouldn't have happened back when they were purchased. They weren't purcha... ALLISON DOBSON They love their land, because it is their own,
And scorn to give aught other reason why;
Would... FITZ-GREENE HALLECK I knew everything happened for a reason. I just wished the reason would hurry up and make itself kno... CHRISTINA LAUREN I think theres a little child in all of us and we all to often forget to let the child out to play. DONNA A. FAVORS A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ... MAUREEN JOHNSON There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums,... FLOYD DELL There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums,... FLOYD DELL That's just a little taste of what's liable to happen at some point in the not-so-distant future. Th... MARTIN CHAPMAN كنت أصمت أذعن لمصيري. أحمل دميتي,أنزع ملابسها, أشد شعره�... مليكة مستظرف The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measure... 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WILLIAM PENN Passion is the mob of the man, that commits a riot upon his reason WILLIAM PENN Because they know not the forces of nature, and in order that they may have comrades in their ignora... WILLIAM OF CONCHES The best feeling in the world is when you child just comes up to you and lays their head in your lap... MARLEE MATLIN If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS When he got fired, of course he was shocked. I don't think he was ever given a reason for it. They p... JACK FERGUSON You can't turn schools into prisons. The woman has a child who goes to that school, so there was no ... JOE DONZELLI But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to... AGNES SMEDLEY I see no reason why anyone would want a computer in their home. KENNETH OLSEN I shared with him I understood the dilemma he was in — that no matter what decision he made, his o... DAN PATRICK I believe that people with a sense of humor are the reason that there are emo kids, its kinda like t... NICHOLAS RYAN LAYMON There's no obvious reason why (Bobby) can't take state. If he just wrestles his best, I don't know w... ERIC SORENSEN When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w... A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s... CARTER CROCKER They wanted me to do Scream 2, and I hate talking about movies I turned down, because it sounds judg... CASEY AFFLECK As for being somewhere you're not supposed to be--Maybe you're here for a reason, or there is no rea... TAMMARA WEBBER Hope like that, as I thought before, doesn’t make you a weak person. It’s hopelessness that make... CECELIA AHERN You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES Every event has a purpose and every setback its lesson. I have realized that failure, whether of per... ROBIN SHARMA Out of the welter of life, a few people are selected for us by the accident of temporary confinement... ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movie... TOM SIZEMORE Altogether, I think it's very solid. I don't see anything that would make someone rush out and buy s... HAROLD VOGEL I'm concerned I won't get a fair chance with my child. I lost my two babies, and now they want to ta... CARRIE CROWELL If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human. MAGGIE STIEFVATER You're trying to find it. You're probably trying to find- the reason that you live- all by yourself.... NATSUKI TAKAYA If he'd hit a jogger or a child or something like that, there's no way he could have walked into the... KATE HARPER I don't see any reason why he would purposely do this to this child, ... I can tell you that when I ... JOSEPH CONTI When a man brings his wife flowers for no reason, there's a reason. MOLLY MCGEE No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no ... WILLIAM SHAKESPERE There's no reason why they can't initiate discussions. It's not a case where you want to wait for so... DANIEL KING No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I see no reason from a planning perspective to approve this. I think it would be a detriment to the ... CHRIS BLAIR If an apology is followed by an excuse or a reason, it means they are going to commit same mistake a... AMIT KALANTRI Would you want you as a friend? PETER STROPLE It should not be surprised by seeing in our weird world that the people for enjoying own bread can a... ANUJ SOMANY Everyone out there is using you for their entertainment and what you mostly need is to be entertainm... SUPERNA BATHEJA I asked them why they did it and they said they had no reason. LOREN WALCH Things might happen for a reason. But could you please explain me the reason why they happen? EPHDAN No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no ... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Seen from Earth, a comet is a prodigy, coming out of the void for no reason, returning to the void f... SCOTT ALEXANDER See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not ... JOYCE CAROL OATES There is a reason why all things are as they are. BRAM STOKER The only reason I would have liked to have gone to university is because I like cricket. Not a very ... JEFFREY BERNARD Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress,... GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS Anger, even when it punishes the faults of delinquents, ought not to precede reason as its mistress,... SAINT GREGORY I As a child, I was always very interested in music and had friends who were in the music business. I ... HOOMAN MAJD It crosses the line of student-teacher relations. There's no acceptable reason for why a teacher wou... LUCY BERRY People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself,
and they never forget a single m... OM BENIWAL You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA In the court of reason man is always a claimant and God is always a respondent. The original intenti... THIRUMAN ARCHUNAN When you are loved well, you want more of it. The only reason I believe anyone would not desire to b... SANDRA M. MICHELLE I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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HARUKI MURAKAMI Because, in the final analysis, the language we speak constitutes who we are as people. HARUKI MURAKAMI We're on the border of this world, speaking a common language. That's all. HARUKI MURAKAMI Learning another language is like becoming another person. HARUKI MURAKAMI Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language. HARUKI MURAKAMI If you look at it the other way round, that's the only reason why this world is inside of me. Maybe ... HARUKI MURAKAMI To know one’s own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one’s own face with ... HARUKI MURAKAMI If you can't understand it without an explanation, you can't understand it with an explanation. HARUKI MURAKAMI Yo no soy tan fuerte. A mi me importa que me entiendan. Hay personas a quienes quiero comprender y q... HARUKI MURAKAMI In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. An inte... HARUKI MURAKAMI Maybe it's just hiding somewhere. Or gone on a trip to come home. But falling in love is always a pr... HARUKI MURAKAMI When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. That's what I think. It's jus... HARUKI MURAKAMI We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Taking crazy things seriously is a serious waste of time. HARUKI MURAKAMI For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I'm often asked what I think about as I run. Usually the people who ask this have never run long dis... HARUKI MURAKAMI All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a p... HARUKI MURAKAMI Memories and thoughts age, just as people do. But certain thoughts can never age, and certain memori... HARUKI MURAKAMI Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have to ope... HARUKI MURAKAMI And, well, mine are kind of on the heavy side anyway. The first day or two, I don't want to do ANYTH... HARUKI MURAKAMI No, I don't want your money. The world moves less by money than by what you owe people and what they... HARUKI MURAKAMI From the moment of my birth, I lived with pain at the center of my life. My only purpose in life was... HARUKI MURAKAMI I know I have a pretty good sense for music, but she was better than me. I used to think it was such... HARUKI MURAKAMI I shouted into the phone, but there was no reply. Silence floated up from the receiver like smoke fr... HARUKI MURAKAMI Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting. HARUKI MURAKAMI Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means... HARUKI MURAKAMI There is nothing in this world that never takes a step outside a person's heart. HARUKI MURAKAMI Hajime," she began, "the sad truth is that some things can't go backwards. Once they start going for... HARUKI MURAKAMI We were, the two of us, still fragmentary beings, just beginning to sense the presence of an unexpec... HARUKI MURAKAMI Once she was out of the car and gone, my world was suddenly hollow and meaningless. HARUKI MURAKAMI No one could say how long that life would last. Whatever has form can disappear in an instant. HARUKI MURAKAMI Look at the rain long enough, with no thoughts in your head, and you gradually feel your body fallin... HARUKI MURAKAMI She was, if anything, on the plain side, at least not the type to attract men wherever she went. But... HARUKI MURAKAMI sometimes i'd wake up at two or three in the morning and not be able to fall asleep again. i'd get o... HARUKI MURAKAMI Inside that darkness, i saw rain falling on the sea. Rain softly falling on a vast sea, with no one ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Once thing goes wrong, then the whole house of cards collapses. And there's no way you can extricate... HARUKI MURAKAMI I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened t... HARUKI MURAKAMI Because memory and sensations are so uncertain, so biased, we always rely on a certain reality-call ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I always feel as if I'm struggling to become someone else. As if I'm trying to find a new place, gra... HARUKI MURAKAMI Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly... HARUKI MURAKAMI Autumn finally arrived. And when it did, I came to a decision. Something had to give: I couldn't kee... HARUKI MURAKAMI But you know Hajime, some feelings cause us pain because they remain. HARUKI MURAKAMI Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in scho... HARUKI MURAKAMI Even castles in the sky can do with a fresh coat of paint. HARUKI MURAKAMI Lots of different ways to live and lots of different ways to die. But in the end that doesn't make a... HARUKI MURAKAMI If I stayed here, something inside me would be lost forever—something I couldn't afford to lose. I... HARUKI MURAKAMI The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no m... HARUKI MURAKAMI I wasn't in love with her. And she didn't love me. For me the question of love was irrelevant. What ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how deeply. I should have learned many things... HARUKI MURAKAMI Have you heard of the illness hysteria siberiana ? Try to imagine this: You're a farmer, livin... HARUKI MURAKAMI No matter where i go, i still end up me. What's missing never changes. The scenery may change, but i... HARUKI MURAKAMI For a long time, she held a special place in my heart. I kept this special place just for her, like ... HARUKI MURAKAMI I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, someth... HARUKI MURAKAMI For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting. HARUKI MURAKAMI